Card or check receiver.



'PATENTED FEB. 27, 1906.

' J. 0. TUTT.

CARD 0R CHECK RECEIVER. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 25. 1905,

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'vate buildings and to the doors of state- UNITED STA'I E S JOHN C. TUTT, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

CARD OR CHECK RECEIVER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 27, 1906.

Application filed September 25, 1905. Serial No. 279,953.

To all whom it may concern:

- Be it known that I, JoHN C. TUTT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Card or Check Receiver, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to cardreceivers; and my first object in producing a card-receiver of the kind is to provide a convenience for railroad-car conductors, adapted to be secured to the inner walls of passenger-cars adjacent to the seat in which the passenger is seated, so that instead of the conductor sticking the way-card or way-check in the passengers hat he places it in the card or check receiver without disturbing the passenger;

card or check receiver is for its convenience, when secure to the doors of publlc and prirooms of sailing vessels, for receiving callingcards. I

To this end my invention consists of certain novel parts and combinations of parts which will be pointed out in the drawings and claimed in the claim.

Figure 1 is a plain view of the card receiver secured to a round plate artistically arranged, made of any suitable material, with four conductors way-checks in position. Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view taken on a line A A atFig. 1, showing the checks held in po-, sition bythe under-curved points of the cardreceiver. Fig. 3 is the form or configuration of the metal before it is formed into the card or' check receiver.

Similar characters designate like parts in In constructing my invention for practical 1 use I take a piece of resilient sheet metal of I imparted to the points 1 when in position as seen at Fig. 2. I have further provided a plate or base 4, which is a part of my invention, although this plate may be dispensed with without impairing the utility of the cardreceiver, as it'c'an be secured to the smooth surface of a door or elsewhere, but would not be as convenient as when secured to the plate and the plate to the door. Said plate is artistically ornamented, as shown in Fig. 1, and is provided with projecting ears 6 as means for securing it in position for use. The cardreceiver is secured to the plate by means of a screw 5, as seen at Fig. 2. When thus in position, the tip-points 1 are slightly turned upward, as indicated also in Fi 2, which will admit of the withdrawal 0 the cards or checks from the receiver without the sharp points coming in contact with them. 7, 8,

9, and 10 illustrate four way checks or cards in position.

I claim A card or check receiver of the character described, comprising a resilient piece of metal formed with a body portion and a plurality of outwardly-extending -V-shaped points, the said points curved under the body portion, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN C. TUTT. Witnesses:

GLENN E. Wooncox B. F. ORARY. 

